| Show A GOOD worde grace greenwood has hag a good word for brigham young after gdal admitting bitting all nil that inay may be bb said against the chief of the latter clatter day saints she says we must all admit even in this tola hla hia tays taya time me of trouble and threatened overthrow that considering the elements he had to deal with the tho rudest the poorest the classes of men for the greater part a conglomerate of the lowest strata strita of civilized societies ilabe the scouring oss off of bf the earth as he himself once called them thom considering the hard condit conditions lons loas of early emigration and sert bert settlement lement he be had bad formed a wonderful enral erfal working colony unparalleled for vig vigor or constancy and po cohesion hesion has created a state almost a nation in this thia wild deseri land and oa on the whole A has haa IS governed ft it surpassingly well but for his one fatal mistake the man might have leatto left to other thries a noble fame if not nob for inspired leadership for masterly sagacity if a prophet of the lord as a hane bane 1 e factor of theloris the Lords poor if not as a priest of anew fe ligion religion as the founder of a new commonwealth his people test quiet ande his strong trong supreme will and actually fanoy fancy j because there is no bluster bluster alio niso ab out ont ut it lit that they bava have perfect toos freedom this la Is doubt doubtless les ies a a wicked place but it does not monopolize the wickedness of this mis great republic golden gorden age vyse NOR nolt HARMLESS we can cannot not but think those federal officials neither wise as serpents nor aa harmless as doves there is it seems to us a cruel severity in their proceedings which the circumstanced circumstances da not justify of a generations growth do not ina ins in naf night ht unless by some soma great convulsion in n no proper moral or legal light aee see a those plural marriages entered into the assent of the federal and territorial authorities adulterous or lewd in DO no just aspect of the cluse case are the children of those marzi marriages abes ages illegitimate intimate Iti mate or bastards dislike mor Wor mormonism monIsm and bate hate polygamy as we will and as the great thaJo majority rity of us do yet 1 H should not be goi foi forgotten that thai mormon men mail and women and children have human hearts and hu haman human affect affections lons loAs which cannot be lacerated lacer lae lac ersted atod sted without pain and that our government ent eat cannot afford to inflict needless sorrow upon any portion of its citizens concord iv N S independent A BAD LOT if what we hear hoar oc of his persecutors be true a betteb better anan aa than tha brignani Br ighani lahani ari lri would ouid have been beon jus justified tided in getting tin g out oe of their thein way and indeed we may way say generally that if the present crusade against mormonism nisin belthe bo the lords doings 1 he 16 is ii making use of that an honest man could not touch with a forty foot pole a beginning with judge mckean of the federal count court whose behavior bin fin the bench igi imi im ha i been despotic and ana extra judicial to the tha lastee gree 11 the charger charges of patching together toge thel parts of federal and territorial lial ilal statutes relates to the uso which is made of a mormon enactment against adultery which could nobby not by of interpretation be supposed to havo heon baon levelled bevelled level led against polygamous marriages marri ageg y Y nation ansu AND monstrous rous BOus the tha idaa 0 o bringing suits for murder against brigham Brig hami young and others on the testimony of the danite hickman must seem utterly a bourd to all unprejudiced persons informed as to bis his career ancl ana character he has iong long been an outcast and outlaw who may tell the truth by accident but who will not hesitate at an any y amount of lying which he fancies can serve a personal end it would be monstrous to doom ddom young and the others guilty on this ohis ore ere creatures evl ovi evidence dence denee zm evry saturday theology THEO logy LoaY the of the utah jeffreys to his hia first victim la in referred to by the tha chicago times timea aa as an au easy lesson in theology he has hag sent tom hawkins to prison says the tho timea times avi q for the term of three years to teach hima him and the brethren of the household of his faith that divine froy proy providence kente kenta does doea riot vot interpose miraculously hoshield to shield criminals c that is the way the judge puts it himself hImA ell elf it maybe questioned however whether a united states juds judg has a right to turn hig hia court into a theological seminary or whether his students will make any considerable Side sid erable rabIe progress in hi divinity under hi his 1 l sacramento Sac reporter Se porter f I 1 were wore it not for this one reproach polygamy thee mayor and common of salt lake alty could stand up before the chiefs of tammany and be boid boasting that they rule over a city whore where among their own people thore are aro no bioti no rings no burglaries no drinking saloons no gambling gamb lint lini hells no disorderly anden and in iamon famon houses of any alyk kind d no beggars no incendiaries no prize fighters a city in which wages are aro high and texes low now it is doing pretty well aa as merr meri go got for a community to have only ono one fault faulty especially when that one really neally a virtue a divine institution ordained and sanctioned and blessed of the almighty and practiced by the greate greatest st and beat meu men known to biblical ages that la is doing pretty well anybody can look abroad uDo udon upon nother other communities and see hund hand noda roda of faults and very serious ones too sorrow borrow oan can an never neven wholly nill fill tho heart thatis occupied with h other welfare rid did rit M melancholy a dizh ay t f W aa uon bit bil 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